Go in Britain, 1982

Terry Stacey won the 1982 London Open with a splendid eight games out of eight.
Tony Goddard was second with seven wins, and third was Jean Michel from Paris.
Jeremy Hawdon (1 kyu), John Rickard (4 kyu), Simon Butler (9 kyu) and
Tony Atkins (10 kyu) were among other prize winners. The lightning was
won by Peter Zandveld from Amsterdam.

Jim Barty won Woodford. Terry Stacey won the Cambridge Trigantius Tournament.
At the end of February, Leeds Grammar School won
the Schools Championship for the third time at Madeley College, Cheshire.

The first BGA Newsletter appeared in February 1982 under the editorship of
Francis Roads. Included was notification of the forthcoming AGM from secretary
Matthew Macfadyen, dates of future tournaments, and useful addresses.

The British Go Congress was held at Nottingham University. Jon Diamond won
all his games to take the British Open title. Jim Bates was second and also
won the lightning tournament. The lower division lightning prize went to
Tony Atkins, 9 kyu, the local organiser who helped Toby Manning . Toby
remained president after the AGM, but Bob Thompson joined him as treasurer
and Norman Tobin as Secretary.

The Challenger's Tournament was held at Covent Garden. 25 players
battled for the right to challenge Matthew Macfadyen. Jim Barty won 7/8, only
losing to Jim Bates. The next three places were taken by Pirani, Stacey and
Granville, all on 6 wins. The Not the Challengers Tournament was won by Mark
Cumper (1 kyu) from Hammersmith, who got a year with the Geoffrey Grey Go Ban as
a prize. In the title match Jim lost to Macfadyen in three straight games.

Francis Roads was European Team Captain accompanying Matthew Macfadyen to
the World Amateur in Japan. In a tournament run on a double elimination
knockout system, Matthew lost to Argentina and Hong Kong to come 14th. The
winner was Tsao (China) ahead of Yang (also China) and Harada of Japan.

Dutchman Ronald Schlemper won the European at Copenhagen.
He lost to fellow countryman Robert Rehm, but won all the rest. A lack of top
German players, however, made this easier than it should have been. In the main
tournament group, Britain's Edmund Shaw came second behind another Dutchman,
Gerald Westhoff.

In the autumn of 1982 Matthew Macfadyen and Terry Stacey were sharing the
honours. The former won the Wessex and the British Lightning, and the later the
Northern and a London autumn event.